Filter



NOV. 25, 1941. RE QUA 2,263,853

FILTER Filed April 10, 1939 INVENTOR mzpzz/tk 1.. FE QUA Hi5 ATTORNEY ried by a supporting Patented Nov. 25, 1941 FILTER Frederick L. Qua, San signer to Oliver United Francisco, Calif., as- Filters Incorporated,

San Francisco, Calif., a corporation of Nevada Application April 10, 1939, Serial No. 266,986

2 Claims.

This invention relates in general to filters and in particular to a filtrate compartment which is rigid and durable and at the same time ofiers a minimum resistance to the fiow of filtrate through it.

All filters consist essentially of a filter medium disposed over a chamber or compartment into which'the filtrate fiows after passing through the action of a differential The filter medium is normally carscreen which is held in the backing member or compartment by a drainage filter medium under the pressure.

spaced relation from fioor of the filtrate member.

In general, the object of this invention is the provision of a filter in which the filter mediumis supported directly or indirectly by a metal ribbon twisted about its longitudinal axis.

The invention possesses other advantageous features, some of which with the foregoing will be set forth at length in the following descriptlon where that form of the invention which has been selected for illustration in the drawing accompanying and forming a part of the present specification is outlined in full. In said drawing, one form-of the invention is shown, but it is to be understood that it is not limited to such form, since the invention as set forth in the claims may be embodied in a plurality of forms.

Referring to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of a filter leaf embodying the objects of my invention and in which parts have been broken away to disclose the construction more clearly.

Figure 2 is a section taken on the line 2--2 of Figure .1. v

Figure 3 is a section taken on the line 3-.-3 of Figure 1.

The filter leaf shown in these figures is of the type disclosed in the- Sweetland Patent No. 1,381,944, of June 21, 1921, and comprises a circular rim l formed with lateral channels 2 and 3. and with an inner peripheral channel 4. .Disposed within the channel 4 are inwardly offset peripheral edges 5 and 6 of a pair of supporting screens 1 and 8 formed of rolled shelf mesh. The supporting screens 1. and 8 are held in spaced parallel relation by a plurality of spaced parallel metal ribbons 9, each twisted about its longitu-. dinal center line so as to form a spiral separator. If desired, the ribbons 8 may be formed with perforations l0 through which the filtrate may pass.

It will be noted that at points spaced along the length of each'ribbon 9 the plane of the ribbon supporting screen 1 across as indicated at the point H is at right angles to the supporting screens 1 and 8. The supporting screens may be conveniently welded to the ribbon at these spaced points by locating the electrodes of the welding machine on opposite sides of the filter leaf at these points so that the electric current will pass, for example, through the diametrically opposed points of the ribbon 9 to the supporting screen 8. The inwardly offset peripheral edges 5 and B of the supporting screens 1 and 8 may be welded within the channel 4 to purpose of preventing thelateral walls of the channel 4 from collapsing, a loop of twisted ribbon l2 may be disposed between the peripheral I edges 5. and 6 before the rim l is disposed over these edges. Since the ribbon 12 is located between the ofiset peripheral be of smaller width than the ribbon 9.

'Covering either side of the filter leaf so formed and supported by the supporting screens 1 and 8 is a filter medium l3, the peripheral edges of which are secured within the lateral channels 2.

and 3 by a crimped metal band or wire I4.

The'twisted ribbon 9 is very strong for its weight, for any crushing force to which it is subjected is resisted by a through column of metal supported against collapse by the adjacent metal along its longitudinal axis. vantage of such a spacing member is that the two supporting screens may be simultaneously welded thereto at diametrically opposed points on the ribbon by the operation of a spot welder. Not only is a rigid and easily fabricated construe-- tion provided, but a construction which offers a minimum resistance to the passage of filtrate through the resulting leaf. Although as shown and tion has been applied to described. ,my invena filter of the leaf type,

it may of course be applied to any type of filter porting screens; and metal ribbon twisted along its longitudinal center lineand disposed between said supporting screens for holding them in spaced relation, said ribbon being welded to said screens at diametrically opposed points along its length.

2. A filter comprising a pair of reticulated metalmembers held in spaced relation by a plurality of metalribbons each twisted about its longitudinal center line and welded to said reticulat'ed members at spaced pairs of diametrically opposed points along its edge.

FREDERICK L. RE QUA.

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